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Wet At Times Through Mid-Week
RADAR CHECK: As expected, rain and storms are rather widespread across Alabama today… Storms are well below severe limits, but the stronger ones are producing torrential rain and a good bit of lightning. Rain and storms are moving northeast, and … Continue reading
Tropical Action
It has been very, very quiet across the Atlantic basin this season, which is expected during an El Nino year. But, we have a wave in the far eastern Atlantic with a good chance of becoming a tropical depression or … Continue reading
Summer Rain
WET PATTERN SETTING UP: An upper low has formed just west of Alabama, and that feature will just hang around much of the week, setting up a wet and unsettled weather pattern. We expect mostly cloudy weather statewide through tonight, … Continue reading
Unsettled Weather Ahead
Thunderstorms were a bit more prevalent for the area of Alabama generally north and west of the Interstate corridor yesterday with a couple of storms packing a sizable punch. Today we will continue to deal with the upper level trough … Continue reading
Storms West, Sun East
Most of Central Alabama is seeing more sun than clouds, but we are seeing a lot more cloud cover over West and Northwest Alabama. We can see that in the visible satellite image below. Lots of those puffy white clouds … Continue reading
West Alabama Storms
As we have seen the past few days, a weak boundary has been moving across the state. It is moving from east to west, and today it is over West Alabama. It is providing enough uplift to allow the warm … Continue reading
Summer-like Weekend
Nice to see temperatures down a little since we know that August in the Southeast US can be unrelentingly hot. Anniston only reached 88 for the high yesterday with 91 in Birmingham, 90 at the Shelby County Airport, and 95 … Continue reading
Scattered Showers/Storms Return
RADAR CHECK: As expected, we have showers and thunderstorms across North/Central Alabama this afternoon in scattered, random locations. The storms are drifting to the northwest, and are producing heavy rain and frequent lightning… they will die down later tonight after … Continue reading
Humidity Levels Rising
MOIST AIR RETURNS: After two days of dry, continental air, the typical maritime tropical airmass returns to much of Alabama today, meaning we will have the risk of “scattered, mostly afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms” today. We should mention … Continue reading
Humidity Levels Rising In Coming Days
SUNNY AUGUST AFTERNOON: As expected, this is another very nice summer day across Alabama, with a good supply of sunshine, low humidity, and temperatures generally in the 88 to 91 degree range. Keep in mind on this date in 2007, … Continue reading
